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Our Opinion

The Huawei Honor 7X 32GB is a slightly better phone, but the Motorola Moto G6 Play is slightly better value for money. Which phone should you buy? It’s a close call, but if your budget allows for it, then Huawei Honor 7X 32GB might be a slightly better choice.

Add to that the minimal bezel 18:9 display, and the Honor 7X is a definite looker

The metal body curves on the sides and along the edges, giving this phone a good in-hand feel

Reasonably light at 165 grams

Beautiful, large, immersive display - watching movies and games is a great experience

Viewing angles are good too, and Honor lets you tweak the colour temperature to suit your preferences

The fingerprint scanner at the back is easy to reach and quick to unlock the phone

Honor's custom EMUI skin is decent (though not the best) and has a thoughtful single-handed mode which makes the phone easier to use despite its big screen

Good, solid, peppy performance backed by the same combination of processor and RAM as the Honor 9i

Both rear and front camera clicks are good in well lit conditions - and both have bokeh mode

Decent battery life - will comfortably last the work day with moderate use

If your primary requirement is for a large, bezel-less display for reading content and watching movies, then the 7X will make a good choice

One of the best-looking phones in this class - even though the back is plastic it looks classy with reflective elements under the top layer responding well to light

It's also likely to be more durable in the long run, compared to it's senior G6 series cousins with all-glass bodies

Easy to use with one hand

The trendy new 18:9 extra-tall display adds to the looks too

The display is pretty good otherwise too - it has decent brightness, contrast and sunlight legibility - the only thing you are really loosing compared to the regular G6 is resolution

Software continues to be Motorola's strong suit with a a fine blend of vanilla Android and just the right amount of useful proprietary customizations (like Moto Actions)

Decent day-to-day performance backed by a Snapdragon 430 - it’s not a super-powerful chipset but does get you more-than-acceptable performance in most areas, including simple gaming

Good rear camera, especially in daylight - the default Auto HDR mode works well, and colors are well-saturated and natural (the only place really where the Moto G6 Play camera loses out to its senior cousins is the absence of a secondary camera for bokeh effects, and somewhat worse low light performance)

There's a dedicated MicroSD cars slot on the SIM tray, so you can have to SIM cards and and SD at the same time

Great battery life - the 4000mAh unit lets the Motorola Moto G6 Play plough on through a full day of intensive use - with lighter use you should find you have 40-50% left by bed time

Supports fast charging (which is uncommon at this price point) - gets you from flat to 100% charge in under two hours

2-minute Review [Negatives]

Performance is good in daily use, but graphically intensive games will stutter - there are better performing phones available in this price bracket

Rear and front cameras are quite good but not the best - low lightperformance and portrait/bokeh mode are sometimes hit-and-miss

Average loudspeaker - audio from videos and music is not the best

Uses the older micro-USB port, instead of the USB-C standard

No fast charging support - will take about two and a half hours to charge fully

At this price range, the Honor 7X faces strong competition from the Xiaomi Mi A1 - while it doesn’t come with as impressive a display as the Honor 7X - it does boast a superior set of cameras, and stock Android OS (along with guaranteed Android updates in the future), which may make it an overall better choice for most users

Has a micro USB charge socket rather than the newer USB-C on the senior Moto G6 phones

Lacks the water repellent nano-coating of the senior Moto G6 phones

The performance is decent in day-to-day use, but there are some phones with better CPUs now in this price bracket (though that is likely to matter only if you are into gaming)

Camera, though decent, is a bit on the slow side too - you can only take roughly one shot a second

The speaker is not the most loud or clear

On the whole, the Moto G6 Play is a pretty decent phone on its own, especially because of it's fuss-free software, but it will face some stiff competition from Xiaomi, Asus and Realme phones, which offer significantly more powerful devices in this price bracket